Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. Officers of the 94th Aero Squadron lined up on a field in France, for an award ceremony. Chief of U.S. Air Service, Major General Mason Patrick, accompanied by Brigadier General William Mitchell (Billy Mitchell), presents Distinguished Service Crosses to aviators of the U.S. 94th Aero Squadron, including Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who receives the DSC with 4 oak leaf clusters. Recipients pose with their Distinguished Service Crosses. Captains Rickenbacker and Jimmy Meissner pose together. SPAD aircraft and a hangar in the background. Rickenbacker poses next to his SPAD XIII that displays German bullet holes patched with Iron cross markings on its tail.
Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron on in France during World War I. Major General Hunter Liggett and U.S. officers discuss a map. General Liggett leaves and French officers join the U.S. officers looking at the map and shake hands. U.S. Officers stand with Professor Henry Seidel Canby from Yale University. Large group of U.S. airmen gathered around a German aircraft that was shot down on October 2, 1918, by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and Lieutenant Reed Chambers. Some of them sit while others stand around the plane. United States 101st Infantrymen lined up as a band plays. General Edwards and other officers salute. General presents Squadron members with Distinguished Service Crosses. He pins medals onto their uniforms. Eddie Rickenbacker with aircraft in the background. Officers pose with a plane in the background. An officer smokes a cigarette as he stands against the nose of an aircraft.
Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. Two men stand near a casket wrapped in the American flag with flowers placed on it. Men of United States 94th Aero Squadron come out of a dispensary where the casket is placed. Men carry casket as they march towards the cemetery. Casket placed in a cart as men carry flowers. Men bury the casket in a grave at the cemetery as a plane flies over head. Men lined up at the cemetery as plane flies overhead. Many new graves with markers at the cemetery.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. British Sopwith Camel bomber aircraft of United States 148th Aero Squadron lined up on a field in Berques, France. Men work on the planes and then push them for take off. Bombers take off and in flight. A plane makes a crash landing and lands vertically on its nose. Men run to help the pilot get off the plane. They push the plane to get it back on its wheels.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Men of United States 148th Aero Squadron stand with aircraft in the background. An officer holds a puppy in his arms. Puppy sits on the propellers of a plane as an officer stands next to him. An officer goes through a map as he smokes a cigarette. A dog on the wing of an aircraft as an officer stands next to it.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Men of American Expeditionary Forces load bombs under the wing of an aircraft at a bombing school in Clermont, France. A trolley carries bombs near the plane. A man turns a small propeller and attaches it to the shell of a bomb. A man works on the parts of an aircraft as he checks the bomb release mechanism. Men with bomb shells work on them. Aircraft in flight as a man looks through a pair of binoculars. Other men plot a diagram on a sheet with the help of a ruler. A man works at a desk with a sheet spread in front of him. Two men check an aerial camera. An aircraft drops a bomb and explosion occurs. A pillar of smoke rises up.
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